Sunrise Powerlink and our new power grid

As sunset colors fill the sky near Plaster City, workers constructing a transmission tower climb back down at the end of the day. Behind this tower is the Southwestern Powerlink.
— Peggy Peattie / U-T San Diego

Workers attach visibility balls to the wires over Lyons Valley Road and the Carveacre area. Two men on the ground held onto the balls until the helicopter landed to allow another worker, outside the helicopter, to collect a ball, then ...
— Peggy Peattie / U-T San Diego

Powerlink transmission towers come right up to the property line of Sandy Creek Ranch near Interstate 8 and Pine Valley. The owner Dennis Berglund has many concerns about the proximity of the towers to his home and business, which involves ...
— Peggy Peattie / U-T San Diego

Workers attach visibility balls to the wires over Lyons Valley Road and the Carveacre area. Two men on the ground held onto the balls until the helicopter landed to allow another worker, outside the helicopter, to collect a ball, then ...
— Peggy Peattie / U-T San Diego

Helicopters did much of the work on the Sunrise Powerlink. Using a hook, helicopter pilots would feed the leader lines through the pulleys on the towers, and later, the actual cable, attached to the leader lines, would be pulled through ...
— Peggy Peattie / U-T San Diego

Helicopters did much of the work on the Sunrise Powerlink. Using a hook, helicopter pilots would feed the leader lines through the pulleys on the towers, and later, the actual cable, attached to the leader lines, would be pulled through ...
— Peggy Peattie / U-T San Diego

Tenaska Solar being constructed near Calexico, close to the border, is part of an overall package of eventual solar and wind energy plants in the desert that feed the Sunrise Powerlink. Tenaska Solar covers over 900 acres and will produce ...
— Peggy Peattie / /UT San Diego